Bannon's War Room - May 07, 2024


Episode 3592： The Unvanquished


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

185.48279

Word Count

10,149

Sentence Count

970

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

Stephen K. Maan is joined by Jim Rickards to discuss the latest in the MBS saga, including the possibility of an assassination attempt on the Saudi crown prince, MBS bin Abdulaziz, and what it means for the future of the country.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
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00:00:12.000 I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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00:00:22.000 but you're not going to stop it.
00:00:23.000 It's going to happen.
00:00:24.000 And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
00:00:27.000 MAGA Media.
00:00:29.000 I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:34.000 Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:38.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.000 War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
00:00:49.000 It's Tuesday, 7 May, Year of the Lord, 2024.
00:00:52.000 We are live from the magnificent Palm Beach studio of Real America's Voice.
00:00:57.000 Following the morning show is absolutely incredible.
00:00:59.000 Great crew.
00:01:00.000 Of course, we've got our core team out in Denver, Real America's Voice,
00:01:04.000 producing the show this morning with producer Cameron and the entire crack crew.
00:01:08.000 Dr. Monica Crowley graciously joins us here for the second hour.
00:01:12.000 Tonight, I'll be back at 5 and then at 6, our own Natalie Winner is going to write shotgun with me.
00:01:17.000 We're going to have Mike Davis, hopefully Kash Patel, maybe Raheem in a second hit today.
00:01:24.000 We're very honored. By the way, MTG, as you know, she's been torn in a million different directions on this motion to vacate.
00:01:29.000 She's going to join us, I think, by phone as soon as we can get her.
00:01:33.000 But we've got Jim Rickards.
00:01:35.000 Jim, just your thoughts.
00:01:37.000 You've become an audience favorite in your analysis of the global economy macro, particularly geopolitics.
00:01:46.000 What about this attempted or maybe not attempted, at least rumored enough that the Saudi Armed Forces and intelligence services had to put out an official denial that there was an assassination attempt on MBS last night in which first reports I heard up to 10 security guards were killed or injured in the process.
00:02:05.000 What would happen geopolitically given that I think Netanyahu is calling their bluff and heading into Rafa?
00:02:12.000 What do you think geopolitically would happen to the world right now?
00:02:16.000 The author of Strategic Intelligence, the great monthly newsletter, sir.
00:02:21.000 Thanks, Steve.
00:02:22.000 Well, the first rule of intelligence analysis is if the government is denying something, it's probably true.
00:02:27.000 Not automatically, but the good chance that there was some kind of mini rebellion, attempted assassination, et cetera.
00:02:36.000 Bearing in mind that King Faisal was assassinated in the, I believe, the 1970s, but some time ago.
00:02:42.000 But there was an assassination of a king not all that long ago.
00:02:46.000 The Saudi Arabian monarchy is very inherently unstable.
00:02:51.000 Every king so far, when I say so far, I'm going back to the 1930s, was, well, there's Abdullah bin Saud, who was the founder of the kingdom.
00:02:59.000 But every king since then has been one of his sons.
00:03:02.000 And I don't know exactly how many sons he had, but 30 or 40, maybe more.
00:03:06.000 So you've got this huge crowd of brothers.
00:03:09.000 But they're all, a lot of them are half brothers, depending on the wife, because they can have, they have polygamy.
00:03:14.000 So, but there are certain groups of four or five or six who had the same mother.
00:03:20.000 So they sort of, there are some full brothers, but then a whole bunch of half brothers.
00:03:24.000 So they have their own cliques inside this royal family.
00:03:27.000 So the reason I'm explaining this is that this is not like a linear succession.
00:03:31.000 This has been brother to brother to brother, not father to son, as in the, say, the British royal family.
00:03:38.000 And there are cliques among these brothers.
00:03:41.000 So, so MBS is the first, he's the crown prince.
00:03:45.000 He's not the king, but he's effectively the ruler because his father is not, you know, kind of exerting that much power.
00:03:50.000 He is the first member of the third generation.
00:03:53.000 He is not one of the brothers.
00:03:55.000 He is, he is a grandson of, of Abdul bin Saud.
00:03:59.000 So, so, but there are other brothers like, yeah, why him?
00:04:03.000 You know, what about my son, et cetera?
00:04:05.000 So there's a, there's a potential rival.
00:04:08.000 Remember, MBS basically rounded up a large group of the royal family and a lot of the Saudi oligarchs, maybe not royals, but extremely rich, took them to the Ritz Hotel and hang them by their feet and kind of beat them until they gave up between a third and a half of their wealth.
00:04:23.000 So that was, that was for openers.
00:04:25.000 He was just sort of saying, I'm the guy and this is what's, this is what you're in for if you don't fall into line.
00:04:30.000 So the jealousy is huge.
00:04:31.000 If there is, if there is an assassination or even an attempted assassination, there's going to be a reprisal.
00:04:37.000 It's very unstable.
00:04:38.000 His other half brother, I think was blown up, partially blown up by a terrorist attack.
00:04:42.000 Hey, Jim, just hang on for one second.
00:04:44.000 I've got, we finally tracked down MTG.
00:04:46.000 Congressman Green, of course, all the shows, all the morning shows, all the political shows are focused on the timing of your motion to vacate.
00:04:56.000 Of course, you had a two hour meeting, I think, with Johnson yesterday, which I don't think, you know, it's your struggle session, but I don't think it shows particularly well on his position when he's got to spend two hours with a rebel like yourself.
00:05:09.000 Can you give us an update of what's going on?
00:05:11.000 Yes, absolutely, Steve, and thank you for having me on the show today.
00:05:15.000 After I left the meeting yesterday, I went out to the press and I said, I really don't have any comments to give.
00:05:22.000 We had a long discussion and I, you know, expressed my resolve, how I've been patient.
00:05:29.000 And I have been.
00:05:31.000 And the American people have been patient.
00:05:33.000 They voted and gave Republicans the majority in 2022 for a reason, because they are fed up with the destructive Democrat agenda.
00:05:42.000 But here's the reality.
00:05:43.000 You know, I didn't give my demands out publicly, but somehow they've gotten leaked all over the press today.
00:05:50.000 Went in simply asking for four simple things.
00:05:55.000 The easiest one that we can ask from our Republican elected speaker is that he obeyed the Hastert rule, which means no bills are brought to the floor unless the majority of the majority, which is the majority of Republicans, support it.
00:06:10.000 And that's it. It's very simple that that goes to my next request.
00:06:15.000 No more funding for Ukraine, no funding for Ukraine, period.
00:06:20.000 And had he obeyed the Hastert rule?
00:06:22.000 Guess what?
00:06:23.000 Sixty one billion dollars would not have gone to Ukraine.
00:06:26.000 There needs to be peace.
00:06:27.000 There needs to be peace talks in Ukraine.
00:06:29.000 This needs to stop.
00:06:31.000 Over 70 percent of Americans do not support funding the Ukraine war.
00:06:35.000 And if Speaker Johnson had obeyed the majority of majority of Republicans, guess what?
00:06:40.000 That wouldn't have happened.
00:06:41.000 So there.
00:06:42.000 My second request is simple and it's already supported by the conference.
00:06:46.000 My third request is very serious.
00:06:48.000 And this is my number one request.
00:06:50.000 We are fed up with the weaponized government, the weaponized Department of Justice that is being used as Joe Biden's campaign arm.
00:06:57.000 We saw special counsel Robert Mueller.
00:06:59.000 We saw that witch hunt against President Trump and the lies of Russian collusion.
00:07:03.000 And now we've seen it again with Jack Smith, who with the FBI tampering with evidence and completing setting, completely setting the stage for a fake trial and fake prosecution against President Trump.
00:07:17.000 And now the American people are being forced to pay for the Department of Justice and the special counsel Jack Smith.
00:07:23.000 I want it ended.
00:07:24.000 I want the entire special counsel defunding and I want it to end.
00:07:29.000 And I think our Republican speaker can make that happen.
00:07:31.000 And I think our Republican conference can make that happen because Donald Trump is our Republican presidential nominee.
00:07:38.000 You know, the press and the Democrats didn't want Hunter Biden's laptop out when when Joe Biden was the presidential nominee and he was running for president.
00:07:47.000 And so I think it's an easy case to make.
00:07:49.000 No more fake trials.
00:07:51.000 No more witch hunts.
00:07:52.000 Stop Jack Smith prosecution.
00:07:54.000 Stop all funding to the Department of Justice that is pursuing political prosecutions against President Trump.
00:08:01.000 That's the third one.
00:08:02.000 The fourth one is this, Steve.
00:08:04.000 And I think this is very reasonable.
00:08:06.000 We're going to be doing 12 separate appropriation bills.
00:08:09.000 And I think that's the right thing to do.
00:08:11.000 I fully support that.
00:08:12.000 And that is how it should be done in Congress.
00:08:15.000 Now, if if Speaker Johnson can't get those bills passed with Chuck Schumer, we aren't going to have an omnibus that Chuck Schumer wrote rammed down our throat.
00:08:25.000 We are not going to do that again.
00:08:27.000 We were only given one page to read over one thousand one day to read over one thousand pages.
00:08:33.000 And we were we were handcuffed and not allowed to give any amendments to that.
00:08:38.000 That will never happen again.
00:08:40.000 That will not be tolerated in our Republican conference.
00:08:42.000 Here's what I want.
00:08:43.000 If we don't get our 12 separate appropriation bills, we'll have to do a one percent cut to spending or we won't do anything at all.
00:08:53.000 OK, so let me just summarize.
00:08:55.000 You've got to have the hassle rule majority majority.
00:08:58.000 But you've asked for no funding of Ukraine, total shutdown of the special counsel and everything related to Jack Smith.
00:09:05.000 And I think that would roll through Colangelo and what's happening in New York.
00:09:08.000 And you've asked you're basically saying you've got to commit now to shut the government down at midnight on 30 September of this year, you know, 30 days before an election.
00:09:17.000 So the reason your demands were out, he leaked them immediately to show, oh, she's so crazy.
00:09:23.000 Here's what she's asking for. Understanding he'll never be able to give up that to you because that would make you essentially speaker and not Hakeem Jeffries.
00:09:30.000 What day are we going to call what day are we calling the vote?
00:09:33.000 So just just so I can move the ball forward, because I agree with all these and I get about 20 others, including he's got to deny what he what he's going to unwind and go back to the pre McCarthy days.
00:09:44.000 Even Kevin McCarthy gave us the accountability and the and the transparency.
00:09:49.000 He told the donors Sunday night he's going to undo that. So given this and if he does this, then you're the speaker.
00:09:55.000 You're the speaker. If he goes on the motion vacate, Hakeem Jeffries tells in 60 minutes he's the speaker.
00:10:00.000 What day, what hour do you plan now to call the motion vacate?
00:10:05.000 Well, Steve, you you're you're nailing the subject to the wall.
00:10:08.000 And this is what war room and this is what people all over the country are screaming for.
00:10:12.000 They want to see this vote because this vote will expose the unit party.
00:10:16.000 I've walked into Johnson's office yesterday and I'm going back at 1230 with very simple demands.
00:10:22.000 The easiest, easiest things to ask for.
00:10:25.000 And I want to hear his answer today at 1230, Steve, because that that will really tell us.
00:10:31.000 Is it Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi who came out and endorsed Mike Johnson?
00:10:37.000 Are they running our Republican controlled House of Representatives?
00:10:41.000 Are we going to pull it back and go back to Republican control with the majority of the majority?
00:10:46.000 Are we actually going to stand up and fight for President Trump this time?
00:10:50.000 Because Republicans didn't do it last time, Steve.
00:10:53.000 And we all know it.
00:10:54.000 And our voters and people across the country are so sick and tired of Republicans in Washington constantly caving to the pressure
00:11:02.000 and never standing up for the one man that Republican voters really want to vote for.
00:11:07.000 Because Republican voters are ready to vote for Trump.
00:11:09.000 Oh, yeah, they're coming out and they're coming out big.
00:11:12.000 But they're going to skip over those rhino names under the House of Representatives on their ballot because they're fed up with them.
00:11:19.000 What I'm demanding is simple is we need to act like Republicans.
00:11:22.000 We need to we need to demand control and we need to stop the government from being used for politics.
00:11:30.000 This isn't hard.
00:11:31.000 This is not complicated.
00:11:33.000 And we'll see how that meeting goes at 1230.
00:11:35.000 I have high expectations and they have to be met in full.
00:11:39.000 There is no middle ground.
00:11:40.000 There is no compromise.
00:11:42.000 And Steve, we'll see what he what he comes out with real quickly.
00:11:46.000 The most pressure you're getting is from other members of the Republican side that don't want to have to actually record a vote in this.
00:11:51.000 Am I incorrect on that?
00:11:53.000 Is that the pressure gang is Marjorie?
00:11:55.000 Don't do this because I don't want to have to vote on this.
00:11:58.000 Is that where the pressure is coming from your colleagues?
00:12:00.000 Steve, it's far nastier.
00:12:01.000 It's far nastier.
00:12:02.000 You wouldn't believe what's being talked about.
00:12:05.000 Oh, we're going to get back at her.
00:12:07.000 She's going to lose committee assignments next Congress with she'll get primary.
00:12:11.000 We're going to come after her.
00:12:12.000 This is going to be nasty.
00:12:14.000 That's the little chitter chatter going around Washington, D.C. right now.
00:12:18.000 That's the chitter chatter going on in the inner circles that is trying to divide me away from President Trump.
00:12:24.000 You know, I fight for President Trump harder in Washington, D.C. than anybody.
00:12:29.000 But everybody right now is trying to pretend like there's a problem between us.
00:12:33.000 And I'm going to tell you right now there is not.
00:12:36.000 I'm just not someone that runs around and talks about my conversations with him.
00:12:40.000 I don't speak for President Trump and what he has to say.
00:12:43.000 But I'll tell you right now, there's a lot of people right now that are planning big paybacks at me for actually demanding that the Republican I elected for Speaker of the House act like a Republican.
00:12:55.000 And I'm going to tell you, I'm going to make sure this all stays transparent.
00:12:59.000 Steve, I'm going to make sure that everybody knows every single thing about it.
00:13:03.000 And I'll tell you right now, I am not worried about getting kicked off committees.
00:13:07.000 They did that to me before.
00:13:08.000 And I raised three and a half million dollars and I'll do it again.
00:13:11.000 Probably even more.
00:13:13.000 You had a pretty good first year.
00:13:14.000 First term, as I remember, you kicked off everything.
00:13:17.000 Congressman Green, people want to follow this moment by moment.
00:13:20.000 Where do they go, ma'am?
00:13:22.000 Just follow my social media rep MTG.
00:13:26.000 I'm on all all the social media.
00:13:29.000 So just just keep following Steve.
00:13:31.000 I know you'll keep everybody updated.
00:13:32.000 Thank you very much.
00:13:34.000 Thank you, ma'am.
00:13:35.000 Thank you.
00:13:39.000 Jim, I tell you what, what we're going to do is I'm going to take a break.
00:13:43.000 We're going to have Jim Rickards is going to rejoin us.
00:13:45.000 Monica Crowley's here.
00:13:47.000 Correct me if I'm wrong.
00:13:48.000 Did Netanyahu's government not call people's bluff of moving into Rafa?
00:13:52.000 They got to do it, right?
00:13:53.000 Absolutely.
00:13:54.000 No question.
00:13:55.000 They knew they had to do it all along and they said nothing and no one is going to stop us.
00:13:58.000 Are you pretty shocked given that the United States for years had a policy of not allowing the Soviet Union to get a base there?
00:14:06.000 And we were so had a such a kind of well thought to plan in the Middle East that a U.S. government, Biden's government that's supported by so many liberal, you know, liberal Jewish people actually cut off arms at the very moment when Israel needs the most cut off weapons to them.
00:14:24.000 It is absolutely disgraceful that this president throws one of our most important allies and certainly our key ally in the region under the bus because they need to win Michigan.
00:14:36.000 That is a disgrace.
00:14:37.000 Do you think it's that is that comes down?
00:14:39.000 Oh, I think it is that cynical and I think it is that obvious.
00:14:42.000 And you agree that you got to go finish this job.
00:14:45.000 If you're going to go through hell, go through quickly.
00:14:46.000 Yes.
00:14:47.000 And honestly, this is Bibi, who's a big Israeli war hero.
00:14:51.000 This is his swan song.
00:14:52.000 He's got to ensure the survival of the state of Israel.
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00:16:24.000 Okay.
00:16:25.000 Welcome back.
00:16:26.000 Jim Rickards, Monica Crowley.
00:16:28.000 In fact, let's go.
00:16:29.000 You've got some thoughts about the assassination of the royal family and the Persians.
00:16:34.000 Yeah.
00:16:35.000 I mean, obviously, you know, we started talking about the Abraham Accords and that was a tremendous
00:16:39.000 historic achievement on the part of President Trump beginning to bring real peace to the
00:16:44.000 Middle East.
00:16:45.000 Saudi Arabia, of course, was the biggest and remains the biggest piece to this puzzle.
00:16:50.000 They are the biggest of them all.
00:16:52.000 And President Trump and his team were very close to convincing the Saudis to be a party
00:16:57.000 to the Abraham Accords, which would have been absolutely shattering in terms of bringing peace
00:17:03.000 to the region and, frankly, to the world.
00:17:05.000 The Iranians cannot have that.
00:17:08.000 They cannot have increasing isolation of them in the international community, stopping their
00:17:13.000 nuclear weapons program, et cetera.
00:17:15.000 So this whole rumor and to Jim's point, you know, when the government comes out and denies
00:17:20.000 it, you know, it's true.
00:17:22.000 This shows that the Iranians are increasingly desperate to try to prevent the inexorable
00:17:28.000 march toward increasing peace in the Middle East.
00:17:31.000 That's why they got Hamas to act and blow up the region.
00:17:35.000 Yes.
00:17:36.000 Stop Saudi Arabia from making peace with Israel.
00:17:38.000 Jim, is it not at the end of the day?
00:17:42.000 Because you take the broader scale, I mean, this is really, we're the inheritors of Rome.
00:17:48.000 We're the Judeo-Christian West, Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome.
00:17:52.000 And you've got the Persians.
00:17:54.000 This really hasn't changed in 3,000 years.
00:17:58.000 I mean, it's the same basic standoff.
00:18:01.000 Because when you talk to the Iranians and the Persians, they consider MBZ, they consider
00:18:06.000 the UAE, the Gulf Emirates, the Saudis, Bedouins.
00:18:10.000 They say, hey, look, these guys never created anything in their lives.
00:18:12.000 They're around because they found oil.
00:18:14.000 We're an ancient civilization.
00:18:16.000 We've been at war against the West.
00:18:18.000 Islam's just a thing that came in the last, you know, couple of hundred years.
00:18:23.000 This is a war of two different outlooks on life.
00:18:27.000 And we're going to outlast the West, sir?
00:18:30.000 Well, that's right.
00:18:31.000 I mean, Rome and Persia in different forms, different dynasties, kind of fought to a standstill.
00:18:37.000 You know, they fought each other.
00:18:39.000 And before that, Alexander the Great took the place over.
00:18:42.000 But there came a time when they just had the motives for Vendai.
00:18:45.000 They just said, all right, you've got your empire.
00:18:46.000 We have ours.
00:18:47.000 We're not going to fight anymore.
00:18:49.000 But unfortunately, Iran or Persia is on the march.
00:18:53.000 By the way, a quick footnote, Steve, on MTG.
00:18:56.000 I agree with four of her four points.
00:18:58.000 When you vote for aid for Ukraine, you're voting to kill Ukrainians.
00:19:02.000 That's all you're doing.
00:19:03.000 The war is not over, but the outcome is over.
00:19:06.000 The Russians are going to win.
00:19:07.000 That's very clear.
00:19:08.000 So all you're doing is you're killing Ukrainian men and they're going to start drafting women.
00:19:12.000 So you'll be killing Ukrainian women at the same time.
00:19:14.000 So that's, of all her points, I thought that was one of the most important.
00:19:19.000 Oh, hold on.
00:19:20.000 Hang on.
00:19:21.000 Hang on.
00:19:22.000 Because we're going to break some news here.
00:19:23.000 Jim Rickards, who's the still point in a turning world, Mr. Stability looking.
00:19:28.000 You've got a new book I want to talk about.
00:19:30.000 But you're saying you actually, MTG is supposed to be so far radical, a rebel.
00:19:36.000 They call us a radical ultramaga insurgents.
00:19:40.000 Did you just tell me you agree with all four of her points?
00:19:43.000 Yeah, I mean, the Hester rule is 20 years old or maybe longer.
00:19:46.000 That's not some revolutionary thing.
00:19:48.000 That's actually the way the Republicans should run the House.
00:19:50.000 Ukraine is just her position in Ukraine is borne out by the facts.
00:19:54.000 Now, if you want to live in a fantasy world and think that F-16, the F-16s are going to be shot down.
00:19:59.000 Sorry to say that, but the F-16s are going to be shot down.
00:20:02.000 The Russians have already shown their anti-aircraft.
00:20:05.000 The S-400 systems and others are far superior.
00:20:08.000 We don't even know what the Russians have.
00:20:09.000 They're way ahead of us at this point.
00:20:12.000 And so, yeah, these are basically established Republican positions.
00:20:17.000 This isn't some kind of radicalism.
00:20:19.000 The radicalism is the Speaker of the House who is basically working with the Democrats.
00:20:23.000 That's what's radical.
00:20:25.000 Hang on.
00:20:26.000 Melania Zonona at CNN just put up a tweet.
00:20:30.000 Johnson was also briefed on this Trump-MTG call per sources.
00:20:34.000 And another source says Trump was very clear in telling MTG to, quote, move on.
00:20:40.000 I asked, Zononi didn't say, I asked Johnson about this.
00:20:43.000 And he told me he has, he is not in favor of the, Trump is not in favor of the motion to vacate Melania.
00:20:49.000 Melania, I mean, Dr. Crowley, if Trump is saying he doesn't support it, where do you stand?
00:20:57.000 Well, I know Congresswoman Greene, who's an absolute heroine throughout on all of these issues.
00:21:03.000 But she's said that she's going to continue this fight.
00:21:06.000 Demands President Trump's position, but she has a strong position, too, that you elect a Republican majority in the House to exercise power.
00:21:14.000 And by the way, for everybody talking about-
00:21:16.000 Do you agree all four points that she laid out are demands?
00:21:19.000 One thousand percent.
00:21:20.000 I'm totally with her on that.
00:21:21.000 Thank God that we have her.
00:21:22.000 Thank God we've got Congressman Gaetz.
00:21:23.000 We're breaking news now.
00:21:24.000 You're not a radical, are you?
00:21:25.000 You're an assertion.
00:21:26.000 I'm an American first rebel like you are, Steve Bannon.
00:21:29.000 And by the way, everybody feared on the left and the Uni Party and the regime, they didn't fear Donald Trump's failure.
00:21:38.000 They feared his success because his success, they knew, would give rise to thousands of Marjorie Taylor Greene's that they would have to be back.
00:21:46.000 When it comes to President Trump, look, I don't know where he is on this issue and what his thinking is.
00:21:53.000 I do think that everything is so destabilized in the country and with him trying to stay out of jail for 700 years-
00:22:00.000 And all the pressure on him every day when they're hammering him with the lawfare.
00:22:04.000 I know.
00:22:05.000 I mean, as powerful as he is, he's still just one man.
00:22:07.000 So he may just want some stability in the House, keep Republican control.
00:22:13.000 So I understand that point of view, but I want to make one final point about this.
00:22:18.000 When the argument is made, well, the Republicans, they only have one vote majority and it's so slim and they don't want the upheaval and the chaos.
00:22:26.000 If the shoe were on the other foot and the Democrats had a one vote majority, they'd be exercising brute force.
00:22:33.000 Pelosi had two votes.
00:22:34.000 She was a hammer.
00:22:35.000 She got everything she wanted.
00:22:37.000 And by the way, Pelosi and Jeffries are still getting everything they want.
00:22:40.000 They run it.
00:22:41.000 If he doesn't meet the four requirements, you say call the vote?
00:22:44.000 I say call the vote.
00:22:46.000 And let's see where it goes.
00:22:48.000 Jim Rickards, do you agree that if Johnson does not agree to these four positions that you agree with, you would call the vote?
00:22:54.000 Yeah, I would.
00:22:55.000 And, you know, the conventional wisdom is that it's going to lose because the Democrats will side with a certain number of Republicans.
00:23:00.000 So that's a very likely outcome.
00:23:02.000 But it still serves a purpose.
00:23:03.000 MTG wins either way.
00:23:05.000 If she wins the vote, that's great.
00:23:06.000 But even if she loses the vote, she's forced everyone to go on the record, say where you stand, and the voters can then decide.
00:23:12.000 That's democracy in action.
00:23:14.000 So I think she wins either way.
00:23:16.000 This is so important because you don't get people smarter than Dr. Monica Crowley or Jim Rickards on geopolitics, the economy, how the system works, and who the players are, and how the government works.
00:23:26.000 And all you've heard is that MTG is by herself, MTG is by herself.
00:23:30.000 Then when she lays it out, you sit there and go, that's pretty logical.
00:23:32.000 Why can't we just get back to that?
00:23:35.000 And if you don't do it, call a vote and let's see how it plays out.
00:23:38.000 Let's expose.
00:23:39.000 Maheem Jeffries is on 60 Minutes saying he's Speaker of the House.
00:23:42.000 Right.
00:23:43.000 Let's have a vote of Republicans that support that.
00:23:45.000 Oh, yeah.
00:23:46.000 The Democrats are right in your face saying that we control everything even though nominally the Republicans do.
00:23:51.000 And the Republican base is sick of it.
00:23:54.000 We have voted and voted and voted for decades and nothing changes.
00:23:58.000 This is why.
00:23:59.000 Jim Rickards, thoughts?
00:24:00.000 Yes, Steve, one of the greatest powers of the Speaker of the House is you don't have to put something on the floor.
00:24:06.000 If you're going, you've got to whip it and cut the boat.
00:24:09.000 You don't have to do that.
00:24:10.000 So why did Johnson put the FISA surveillance of Americans without a warrant, which violates the Fourth Amendment?
00:24:16.000 OK.
00:24:17.000 And then because the other one was additional aid to Ukraine.
00:24:19.000 Listen to what he said.
00:24:20.000 He said, I was briefed by the intelligence committees or the intelligence agencies, CIA in particular.
00:24:26.000 And if you knew what I knew, if you knew what they told me in a classified session, et cetera, you'd do the same thing.
00:24:31.000 You know what?
00:24:32.000 He doesn't understand the intelligence community.
00:24:34.000 They are professional liars.
00:24:36.000 Denial and deception are considered.
00:24:39.000 That's a plus on your resume.
00:24:40.000 If you're really good at that, you're probably pretty good in the intelligence community.
00:24:43.000 I was in it for 10 years.
00:24:44.000 I mean, you have some experience.
00:24:46.000 They lie to each other.
00:24:47.000 I mean, it's, you know, James Jesus Angleton called it the wilderness of mirrors.
00:24:51.000 You know what?
00:24:52.000 He was exactly right.
00:24:53.000 It is a wilderness of mirrors.
00:24:54.000 So you have to be like really good at assessing what your own people are telling you or not telling you.
00:24:58.000 Forget about figuring out the enemy.
00:25:00.000 You got to do that, too.
00:25:01.000 So if I were in an intelligence briefing, I would say, look, you're probably lying to me.
00:25:05.000 In fact, I'm pretty sure you are.
00:25:06.000 Why don't we just cut to the chase?
00:25:07.000 Because because Johnson, I don't know if he's naive or just, you know, pretending.
00:25:11.000 He's very.
00:25:12.000 He told him was a lie.
00:25:14.000 They're professional liars.
00:25:15.000 And I don't say that in a disparaging way.
00:25:18.000 It's what they do.
00:25:19.000 No, it's what they're supposed to.
00:25:20.000 Monica Corral, you agree with Rickards?
00:25:22.000 One thousand percent.
00:25:23.000 And when it comes to the FISA warrantless surveillance of American citizens.
00:25:27.000 A massive expansion, not an extension.
00:25:28.000 I guarantee you.
00:25:29.000 And I was not in that briefing.
00:25:31.000 But I can guarantee you what they told him.
00:25:34.000 They played on the political fear.
00:25:36.000 Well, you know, if you don't renew this and there's another 9-11, the blood is going to be on your hands.
00:25:42.000 A hundred percent.
00:25:43.000 And you're going to.
00:25:44.000 And they buy it.
00:25:45.000 Stanley Drunkenmiller on Squawk Box Jim Rickards today said that he was asked point blank, give a grade on Bidenomics and Joe Biden's handling economy.
00:25:52.000 He said, if I had to give a grade today, it'd be an F.
00:25:55.000 Wow.
00:25:56.000 That's huge.
00:25:57.000 And that's coming from a guy who's not MAGA.
00:25:59.000 OK, he's not MAGA.
00:26:01.000 Your thoughts about that, sir?
00:26:02.000 Yeah.
00:26:03.000 I mean, if you're a really poor student and you really don't get it, maybe you get a D or a C minus.
00:26:08.000 I went to a few schools where they graded on a C curve and they graded on a C minus curve and you needed a C to graduate.
00:26:15.000 So how do you do that?
00:26:16.000 A gentleman's C.
00:26:18.000 A gentleman's C.
00:26:19.000 That's back in the old days when they weren't handing out A's.
00:26:22.000 But Stan is one of the, not just most successful, because money is not always the right measure of things.
00:26:27.000 He's one of the smartest hedge fund managers, smartest money managers around.
00:26:31.000 He now runs a family office.
00:26:32.000 So I put a lot of weight on what he says.
00:26:34.000 Steve, if I could just pivot back to Saudi Arabia just for a second.
00:26:38.000 Sure.
00:26:39.000 We have two assassination stories this morning.
00:26:42.000 One is MBS and, you know, need more details.
00:26:45.000 But the other one was a foiled assassination attempt on Zelensky.
00:26:49.000 The New York Times is blaming it on the Russians.
00:26:51.000 That's the most ridiculous idea I can think of.
00:26:53.000 You know, when you do intelligence work, I say if you had all the facts, a smart high school kid could solve the problem.
00:26:59.000 Intelligence work is not having all the facts but using Bayesian technique and inference and other, you know, tried and true techniques to figure it out.
00:27:06.000 Why on earth would the Russians assassinate Zelensky?
00:27:08.000 He's incompetent, corrupt, no military experience at all.
00:27:12.000 If you're fighting a war, you want the leader of the other side to be as much of a dope as you can find.
00:27:17.000 And Zelensky fits the bill.
00:27:19.000 You would never assassinate Zelensky because he's losing the war.
00:27:22.000 You want an incompetent in charge.
00:27:24.000 So somebody—well, this is intra-Ukrainian.
00:27:28.000 You know, they fired General Zelensky a couple of months ago.
00:27:32.000 But he's got his crowd, including a former president of Ukraine.
00:27:36.000 And this is infighting in Ukraine, nothing to do with the Russians.
00:27:39.000 Over in Saudi Arabia, I heard something was the Israelis.
00:27:43.000 Again, MBS is probably one of the best friends the Israelis have.
00:27:47.000 Now, he can't come out and say that.
00:27:48.000 He can't sign up to the Abraham Accords.
00:27:50.000 But the Israelis wouldn't dare assassinate MBS.
00:27:53.000 It was likely the Iranians.
00:27:55.000 Jim, just hang over a second.
00:27:58.000 Jim Rickards joins us from Strategic Intelligence.
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00:30:00.000 Welcome back.
00:30:01.000 Jim Rickards, you've got a, and remember, Rickards is not a gold bug, right?
00:30:07.000 But you've got a book and a kind of honor, it's a homage a little bit to Ron Paul.
00:30:13.000 Tell us what it is and how do people get it in going to strategic intelligence?
00:30:19.000 Thanks, Steve.
00:30:20.000 Yeah, the book is The New Case for Gold.
00:30:22.000 And in 1981, Ronald Reagan had a commission to consider returning to the gold standard.
00:30:27.000 And Ron Paul, Lou Lehrman and others were members.
00:30:29.000 Well, the commission decided not to do it.
00:30:31.000 But Ron Paul and Lou Lehrman wrote a, called a minority report called The Case for Gold.
00:30:36.000 So when I wrote my book, it was called The New Case for Gold, updating it, a lot more contemporary
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00:30:41.000 But we have a landing page.
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00:31:03.000 Do you think now, more than ever, if President Trump put a commission, do you think there
00:31:09.000 would be, do you think it would even be more compelling than in 81?
00:31:12.000 Because you're in a currency war back then, right?
00:31:14.000 And to not come down to the Plaza Accords, I think in 88.
00:31:17.000 Do you think it would be a more compelling case today, sir?
00:31:20.000 The thing with the gold standard can work.
00:31:23.000 But to do it, you would have to reprice gold to $25,000 an ounce.
00:31:27.000 Now, I'm not forecasting $25,000 gold.
00:31:30.000 What I'm saying is, if you want a gold standard with 8,000 metric tons, that would be the price
00:31:36.000 relative to the money supply.
00:31:37.000 I always tell people, you don't need the government to be on a gold standard.
00:31:40.000 You can go on your personal gold standard.
00:31:43.000 Just buy some gold.
00:31:44.000 Don't overdo it.
00:31:45.000 But if you buy gold, you've got all the benefits of a gold standard without relying on the government.
00:31:50.000 I'll tell a real quick story, Steve, and Monica will appreciate this because she's a former
00:31:54.000 senior treasury official.
00:31:55.000 My first official, my first visit to the White House on official business was in 1974 in the
00:32:00.000 Nixon administration.
00:32:01.000 And I met with Helmut Sonnenfeld, who was the deputy national security advisor.
00:32:05.000 Big brain.
00:32:06.000 He was, he was known as Kissinger's Kissinger.
00:32:08.000 I was with Robert W. Tucker, head of the American Foreign Policy Institute.
00:32:11.000 But we were planning the invasion of Saudi Arabia.
00:32:13.000 This was during the petrodollar standard when it was being set up.
00:32:16.000 William Simon and Jerry Parsky, they were the good cops.
00:32:19.000 They went and said, look, hey, you price oil in dollars, take the dollars, buy treasury bills,
00:32:24.000 CDs.
00:32:25.000 Our banks will lend the money to the third world.
00:32:26.000 They'll buy our stuff.
00:32:27.000 It's all good.
00:32:28.000 We'll get out of the 1974 recession.
00:32:30.000 I was the bad cop, along with others.
00:32:32.000 We were saying, by the way, if you don't do that, we're going to invade eastern Saudi Arabia.
00:32:36.000 It's not regime change.
00:32:37.000 We're going to establish a security perimeter around the oil.
00:32:39.000 We're going to pump as much as we want and price it.
00:32:41.000 All the money and trust for the Saudi people.
00:32:43.000 But and then we leaked it to the Chicago Tribune.
00:32:45.000 So Saudi said, man, we'll do the petrodollar deal.
00:32:48.000 Thank you very much.
00:32:49.000 But my point is, what were they doing that caused William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury, to do that?
00:32:55.000 They were buying gold.
00:32:56.000 And so that's actually something that the U.S. wants to avoid.
00:32:59.000 Because when you buy gold, you put the gold away.
00:33:01.000 There's no circulation.
00:33:02.000 There's no velocity in that money.
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00:33:18.000 Jim, thank you for doing this.
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00:33:29.000 Sir, thank you so much.
00:33:31.000 Thanks.
00:33:32.000 Shocking news today.
00:33:34.000 Two guys that think everything through on a global basis who are part of and think of the Trump movement are supporting MTG.
00:33:43.000 Drunken Miller saying that the Biden, and Drunken Miller is one of the most respected guys.
00:33:49.000 I mean, you were at Treasury, a senior official for Trump at Treasury.
00:33:53.000 When Drunken Miller doesn't say it's a B, when he says it's an F, and it comes out right away.
00:33:58.000 Huge.
00:33:59.000 That's huge.
00:34:00.000 Huge, huge.
00:34:01.000 That's the smart money telling you what they think.
00:34:02.000 1,000%.
00:34:03.000 I've met him.
00:34:04.000 I can't say that I know him, but he is certainly on the Mount Rushmore of the financial establishment, right?
00:34:11.000 And it's not just Drunken Miller now saying this.
00:34:13.000 You've had Warren Buffett tell the truth about the Biden economy.
00:34:16.000 On Saturday.
00:34:17.000 You've had Jamie Dimon speak about the truth about the Biden economy.
00:34:21.000 Bill Ackman.
00:34:22.000 I mean, you know, these guys might vote Democrat, but they're not liars when it comes to the state of the Biden economy.
00:34:28.000 It's not sustainable.
00:34:29.000 This is one of the reasons Johnson has this problem with this model.
00:34:33.000 Warren Buffett says on Saturday, it's not sustainable.
00:34:36.000 They're not going to cut spending because they don't have the will or the guts.
00:34:39.000 You're going to have massive tax increases.
00:34:41.000 Something's got to happen.
00:34:42.000 You just can't continue to do this.
00:34:43.000 Yeah.
00:34:44.000 And again, these are establishment guys that are part of the financial establishment, but they're also part of the Democrat establishment.
00:34:49.000 But it's the Democrat Party of old, right?
00:34:52.000 That JFK, et cetera, that was for tax cuts and a growing economy.
00:34:56.000 What you have now is a Democrat Party that is a Marxist revolutionary force in this country.
00:35:02.000 These guys see it because they're seeing the bottom line.
00:35:05.000 You honestly believe they're a Marxist revolutionary force.
00:35:07.000 First of all, we have been in a rolling Marxist revolution since the 1930s.
00:35:11.000 Nixon was right.
00:35:12.000 McCarthy was right.
00:35:13.000 They were trying to raise the alarm bells.
00:35:15.000 Nobody would listen.
00:35:16.000 They were marginalized.
00:35:18.000 They were mocked.
00:35:19.000 They were sidelined.
00:35:20.000 Their reputations destroyed over it.
00:35:22.000 They were trying to warn us.
00:35:23.000 You're like Ann Coulter.
00:35:24.000 You were with me and Ann Coulter.
00:35:25.000 McCarthy is one of the great figures of the 20th century.
00:35:27.000 He was 100 percent right.
00:35:29.000 And, you know, the rank and file didn't see it at the time, but he was 100 percent right
00:35:34.000 because started a Soviet operation to infiltrate and destroy us from within.
00:35:39.000 Their first target was the U.S. government.
00:35:41.000 So they infiltrated that first, and then they expanded to the culture, to academia, now
00:35:47.000 to big tech, and they control everything.
00:35:49.000 They've done the long march to the institutions.
00:35:51.000 Now we're living with it.
00:35:52.000 That's why you've got to combat it.
00:35:53.000 That's why you've got to be on offense.
00:35:55.000 All this talk drudged the other day in his Mac daddy had 41 percent of the American people
00:36:00.000 are worried about a new civil war.
00:36:02.000 We've got the finest combat historian of his generation, Patrick K. O'Donnell,
00:36:06.000 joins us from the studios of The War Room in Washington, D.C.
00:36:11.000 Patrick, the day's finally come.
00:36:13.000 We've talked about this for a couple of years.
00:36:15.000 You're beloved by The War Room posse.
00:36:17.000 They love your books.
00:36:18.000 The Unvanquished is actually available.
00:36:20.000 For everybody who pre-ordered it, they get it, but The Unvanquished is available for everybody,
00:36:24.000 starting today?
00:36:26.000 Absolutely.
00:36:27.000 Today is launch day, Steve.
00:36:29.000 And it's an honor to be here at The War Room to launch the book.
00:36:32.000 And this is something we've done a few times with my books.
00:36:35.000 Launch it from The War Room.
00:36:37.000 And it's available at Barnes & Noble nationwide.
00:36:39.000 It's at the front of the store.
00:36:41.000 It's an Amazon best book of the month for history.
00:36:44.000 And, yeah, it's been a bestseller for over a month already, which is pre-orders alone.
00:36:50.000 Tell me that, because War Room Mornings, you've come in a couple of times to tease us about
00:36:53.000 it.
00:36:54.000 They've loved what they've heard.
00:36:55.000 Look, they love your writing.
00:36:57.000 And then when you went from, you know, Iraq and the modern wars, you went back to the
00:37:01.000 revolution for two blockbusters.
00:37:03.000 Now you spent years, as you always do, on the Civil War.
00:37:06.000 Tell me about the book, for people that haven't seen your previous hits, because Amazon's
00:37:09.000 already rated the best history book of the month, which is a huge deal.
00:37:13.000 Tell me about The Unvanquished.
00:37:14.000 Why should our audience dive into about a special forces group fighting in Commonwealth of Virginia
00:37:21.000 and other places?
00:37:23.000 Because, Steve, our world is being influenced by covert operations, special operations, irregular
00:37:29.000 warfare.
00:37:30.000 So this show has been about the Middle East.
00:37:33.000 All we have to do is look at the hidden hand of Iran, and not so hidden hand, and the fact
00:37:37.000 that their proxies are running all over the place.
00:37:39.000 This is something I saw firsthand when I was in Fallujah.
00:37:43.000 The hidden hand of Iran, as their proxies were extremely powerful, CUDS Force, IRGC, they had
00:37:52.000 mastered the techniques that the men pioneered, men and women in some cases actually, that
00:37:57.000 had pioneered in 1861 through 1865.
00:38:01.000 And what I mean by that is right here in Washington, D.C., in 1941, America did not
00:38:06.000 have special operations forces.
00:38:09.000 While Bill Donovan and the OSS had to find an example, because World War I had taken
00:38:15.000 place, covert operations, shadow operations were frowned upon by the establishment.
00:38:20.000 So they looked back at the Civil War, our first modern war.
00:38:24.000 And within the Civil War, there were specialized units.
00:38:28.000 This book tells the untold story of the Jesse Scouts, Lincoln Special Forces.
00:38:32.000 These are 18-, 19-, 20-year-old boys that were asked to volunteer for hazardous duty.
00:38:39.000 They didn't know what that was in many cases.
00:38:41.000 They volunteered, they stepped forward, and they were asked to put on a Confederate uniform.
00:38:45.000 And they infiltrated behind Confederate lines.
00:38:48.000 They led the armies through, you know, tactical intelligence, finding the weak spots in the
00:38:53.000 lines, delivered messages, but also captured and went after the most dangerous men of the
00:38:59.000 South, including John Singleton Mosby.
00:39:02.000 Mosby's Rangers, which happened to be operating in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
00:39:07.000 In fact, Northern Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley, Blue Ridge Mountains.
00:39:11.000 And this is an amazing story of not only Mosby, but also a regular units that are the origins
00:39:17.000 of what we now see today.
00:39:19.000 But also the Confederate Secret Service, which is another really extraordinary shadow group.
00:39:24.000 They burned their records after the war, so now much is known about them.
00:39:27.000 But they did things that were 100 years ahead of their time, Steve.
00:39:31.000 We're talking about election interference, influence from press operations.
00:39:36.000 What's important to understand is the Unvanquished is an entirely different look at the Civil War.
00:39:42.000 It looks at it as an insurgency, as well as the Shadow War.
00:39:46.000 The South did not have to win the war.
00:39:48.000 They had to merely survive.
00:39:50.000 As we know, in 20th century and 21st century counterinsurgencies, they're almost impossible
00:39:56.000 to defeat if they have the population support behind them.
00:40:00.000 The South had to survive the war.
00:40:03.000 And they came up with very innovative techniques and tactics which are now used today.
00:40:08.000 Everything from election interference to ballot fraud, for instance.
00:40:13.000 The first mail-in ballots, Steve, were during the Civil War so that Union soldiers could vote.
00:40:18.000 And, of course, the book uncovers an incredible operation where there was a fraud scheme to change tens of thousands of ballots
00:40:28.000 for the Democrat candidate at the time, George McClellan.
00:40:31.000 And it was almost a success.
00:40:33.000 No, no.
00:40:34.000 If it hadn't been for the Union Army supporting Lincoln overwhelmingly, I'm not so sure his second term would have been the landslide.
00:40:42.000 Until Atlanta fell, McClellan was basically winning because he was running against his general who wanted to cut a peace deal with the South.
00:40:48.000 You also bring up – the reason I love the book is the personalities.
00:40:51.000 I mean, these are giants.
00:40:53.000 You've got Mosby.
00:40:54.000 You've got these guys from the Confederate Secret Service.
00:40:56.000 And you're absolutely correct.
00:40:57.000 The Confederate Secret Service, a lot of it was working out in Montreal.
00:41:00.000 And they were up to their necks in the assassination of Lincoln.
00:41:03.000 I mean, these guys were everywhere and they've never really gotten their due.
00:41:08.000 And your book really puts forth both the Union heroes and also the Confederate – these Confederate personalities that are just larger than life.
00:41:17.000 Absolutely.
00:41:18.000 And as you mentioned, in Montreal, it's a St. Lawrence Hotel.
00:41:21.000 And this is really interesting cloak and dagger stuff, Steve.
00:41:25.000 Jefferson Davis knows that the war is being lost.
00:41:28.000 So he gives the Confederate Secret Service and its agents a million dollars in gold to buy influence from whoever they can.
00:41:37.000 That's overseas powers, Great Britain or France, as well as the Democratic Party at the time.
00:41:44.000 And it's at the St. Lawrence Hotel that you have some incredible intrigue that takes place.
00:41:50.000 Mint juleps are served year-round there to satisfy anybody that's a Confederate sympathizer or all these expatriates that are up there from the South.
00:42:00.000 And they're plotting and scheming the demise of the Union.
00:42:03.000 And they nearly succeed.
00:42:05.000 It's amazing.
00:42:06.000 But it's also the story of the Jesse Scouts that changed the course of the war through their actions.
00:42:11.000 It's about personal agency, Steve.
00:42:13.000 It's about men and women, mostly men in the case of the Jesse Scouts, that literally changed the course of the war through their actions.
00:42:20.000 The third battle of Winchester, it's the Jesse Scouts that find crucial intelligence that they realize that Jubal Early's brigade, one of his brigades, is being withdrawn to Richmond.
00:42:34.000 And it's through that intelligence, which includes an enslaved African-American who is actually helping deliver the intelligence, and a school teacher, Rebecca Wright, that risks her entire life with this intelligence to deliver it through the Jesse Scouts to General Sheridan.
00:42:50.000 And they attack at exactly the right time and place.
00:42:53.000 And the third battle of Winchester changes the course of the Civil War and the electorate as well.
00:43:00.000 The northern population now finally believes that the war can be won by the north.
00:43:06.000 And these men are doing things at the crucial time and place, such as Appomattox.
00:43:14.000 And I'll have a signing down there on Thursday on the 9th at 6 p.m.
00:43:18.000 And it's the Jesse Scouts that helped capture Lee's supply trains and end the war.
00:43:23.000 Incredible stuff, Steve.
00:43:25.000 Patrick, where do people go to get the book now?
00:43:27.000 Where do they go to get your schedule?
00:43:28.000 We've got about 30 seconds.
00:43:30.000 Give folks everything.
00:43:31.000 Where do they go?
00:43:32.000 At Combat Historian at Getter.
00:43:35.000 The book is at Barnes & Noble, the front of the store.
00:43:37.000 You can go buy it.
00:43:39.000 PatrickKODonald.com is my website.
00:43:43.000 And at Combat Historian on X or Twitter.
00:43:47.000 And Getter is also a place you can find out all the details.
00:43:50.000 I also have another signing at my original library in Bay.
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00:45:32.000 Patrick, where can people go to get your schedule right now?
00:45:35.000 The War Room audience wants to meet you personally.
00:45:37.000 Get a signed copy.
00:45:38.000 Particularly shake your hand and say thank you.
00:45:39.000 Get to know you better.
00:45:40.000 Where do they go?
00:45:41.000 I'd love to meet the War Room audience, the posse.
00:45:43.000 They've been amazing.
00:45:44.000 Go to at CombatHistorian at Getter or at CombatHistorian on Twitter or X.
00:45:50.000 Or my website, PatrickKO'Donnell.com.
00:45:53.000 Book is on Amazon, front of the store at Barnes & Noble, and other fine booksellers across the country.
00:45:59.000 We launched today.
00:46:00.000 Today is publication day.
00:46:02.000 But it's already been a bestseller for over a month.
00:46:04.000 The War Room posse loves it.
00:46:07.000 They're going to buy a lot more and they want to meet you.
00:46:09.000 The Unvanquished.
00:46:10.000 Best Combat Historian of his generation.
00:46:12.000 Patrick K. O'Donnell.
00:46:13.000 Look forward to seeing you on Memorial Day.
00:46:14.000 Be back in a couple of weeks for our annual Memorial Day weekend show.
00:46:18.000 I also look forward to meeting the audience, too.
00:46:20.000 I have in the past.
00:46:21.000 It's been great.
00:46:22.000 Get to his site.
00:46:24.000 Find out where he's going to be.
00:46:26.000 Patrick is the kind of guy who will spend hours after these big signings getting you up to speed on the history of this country, the true history of this country.
00:46:33.000 Monica Crowley.
00:46:35.000 Thoughts?
00:46:36.000 Is Netanyahu going to go in and clean this mess up?
00:46:39.000 Yes.
00:46:40.000 Get rid of these combat brigades?
00:46:41.000 Yes.
00:46:42.000 Because the media, you ain't seen nothing yet.
00:46:44.000 This Marxist revolution here is going to get more intense.
00:46:46.000 Your thoughts?
00:46:47.000 When it comes to Bibi Netanyahu, he has spent his entire adult life defending the state of Israel and ensuring its survival.
00:46:54.000 This is it for him.
00:46:56.000 This is his legacy, this war.
00:46:58.000 He's made it very clear that he is going all the way to Rafak.
00:47:01.000 The mission has already started there.
00:47:03.000 So he's going to clean out Hamas, Root, and Brent.
00:47:06.000 This is not a head fake.
00:47:07.000 No matter how much, no, absolutely not.
00:47:10.000 And no matter how much pressure Biden and his team rains down on Israel and on Bibi's head, he is going forward.
00:47:17.000 What about, are we going to see an explosion in New York City and other cities as it spreads out of the campuses into places like Times Square in Chicago, Los Angeles?
00:47:26.000 Yeah.
00:47:27.000 Are these Marxist revolutionaries just starting?
00:47:29.000 Yes.
00:47:30.000 And as we always say, the famous line, the issue is never the issue.
00:47:34.000 The issue is always the revolution.
00:47:36.000 That is 100% true.
00:47:38.000 The top line issue is never what it's all about.
00:47:40.000 So you go back to 2020, Antifa, Black Lives Matter.
00:47:43.000 You go back even further.
00:47:44.000 Is this about Israel and the Jews or is this about America and the Americans?
00:47:49.000 It's partly about Israel and the Jews.
00:47:52.000 And that's horrifying enough.
00:47:53.000 That's the portal.
00:47:54.000 That's the portal.
00:47:55.000 That's the pretext to continue these Marxist, you know, revolutionary activities in the West, in the United States.
00:48:03.000 But it's really not about Israel.
00:48:05.000 You have a Ph.D., right?
00:48:06.000 It's always about destabilizing American society.
00:48:08.000 You have a Ph.D., right?
00:48:09.000 I do.
00:48:10.000 Do you agree with me?
00:48:11.000 We've got to purge the faculties.
00:48:12.000 I mean, going to purge the faculties as a Marxist.
00:48:14.000 By the way, I'm a graduate of Columbia University.
00:48:17.000 I hold three degrees from Columbia and I am horrified by what's going on.
00:48:21.000 But Columbia has always...
00:48:23.000 Have they asked you to be commencement address this year?
00:48:25.000 I have not gotten that invitation.
00:48:27.000 Lost in the mail, Bannon, I guess.
00:48:29.000 They did not celebrate you as a senior executive in the first Trump term?
00:48:34.000 I think they are so embarrassed that I am a multi-degree graduate of Columbia University.
00:48:39.000 When I was there, it was relatively quiet, but Columbia has always been a leading force for this kind of revolutionary activity.
00:48:45.000 Yes, 68.
00:48:46.000 Student revolution.
00:48:47.000 And, you know, like we talked about how when the Soviets started this whole project to infiltrate and destroy us from within, they started with the government and then they moved quickly to academia.
00:48:57.000 Because college campuses are very concentrated environments.
00:49:03.000 And so you can get revolutionary thoughts, ideas, and activities going.
00:49:08.000 It's like setting a match onto dry kindling.
00:49:11.000 Plus, they don't have to work for a living.
00:49:13.000 By the way, so Mosby, the book of The Unvanquished takes place, a lot of it takes around Middleburg.
00:49:17.000 I know part of your, your stomping grounds, Palm Beach, Middleburg, in the Upper East Side of New York City, is that Monica?
00:49:24.000 New York City, Long Island.
00:49:26.000 The gracious and classy Monica.
00:49:27.000 How does the gracious and classy Monica Crowley end up in the war room?
00:49:30.000 I told you, I am an America first rebel.
00:49:33.000 I got to talk about your career trajectory.
00:49:36.000 I'm an America first rebel.
00:49:38.000 And I was one of President Trump's very first public supporters.
00:49:41.000 Oh, yeah.
00:49:42.000 A couple hours after he came down the escalator, I was on Fox and I said, stop laughing.
00:49:47.000 Do not underestimate him.
00:49:48.000 He's going to pull the whole thing off.
00:49:49.000 And they looked at you like you were crazy.
00:49:51.000 Oh, and I got a ton of slings and arrows.
00:49:53.000 Like, hey, Monica, you know, you're, you're nuts.
00:49:55.000 What's going on?
00:49:56.000 You got a podcast.
00:49:57.000 Your writings are amazing.
00:49:58.000 You're one of the smartest people out there.
00:50:00.000 You get the whole picture.
00:50:01.000 That's where President Trump puts you at Treasury.
00:50:03.000 Thank you.
00:50:04.000 Where do people go?
00:50:05.000 Thank you.
00:50:06.000 Monica Crowley podcast available wherever you get your podcasts, Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher.
00:50:11.000 But also we're up on Rumble.
00:50:13.000 So it's an audio podcast.
00:50:14.000 But we do have a Rumble page, the Monica Crowley podcast.
00:50:18.000 So please go check it out there.
00:50:19.000 You throw down pretty hard on that, too.
00:50:20.000 Oh, I hold nothing back.
00:50:23.000 You get off the chain.
00:50:24.000 I hold nothing back.
00:50:25.000 We don't have time to waste and sugarcoat anything.
00:50:28.000 You've got to tell the truth and wake everybody out in time.
00:50:31.000 And you're saying at 1230 today, it's been announced, MTG is going in.
00:50:34.000 If Johnson doesn't hit the bid on those four, which you think are very logical, you're saying go.
00:50:38.000 Call the vote.
00:50:39.000 Call the vote.
00:50:40.000 Wow.
00:50:41.000 We have no more time to waste.
00:50:42.000 The country is hanging by a thread, can no longer sugarcoat things or make accommodations
00:50:47.000 to the Marxist left, even in our own party, Steve.
00:50:50.000 Mike Lindell, real quickly.
00:50:51.000 People want to talk about deals because you blew it out yesterday.
00:50:54.000 Real quickly.
00:50:55.000 On Speaker Johnson, do you call the vote?
00:50:56.000 And let's see where people stand on the motion of vacate.
00:50:59.000 Absolutely.
00:51:00.000 Absolutely.
00:51:01.000 We've got to get rid of them immediately.
00:51:03.000 And we've got to get rid of them.
00:51:05.000 Wow.
00:51:06.000 Hold it.
00:51:07.000 Hold it.
00:51:08.000 Hold it.
00:51:09.000 Hold it.
00:51:10.000 Stop.
00:51:11.000 He's a Christian.
00:51:12.000 He's got a biblical worldview.
00:51:13.000 Yeah.
00:51:14.000 Whatever.
00:51:15.000 He can use that word all he wants.
00:51:16.000 We'll see what day he was saved.
00:51:18.000 Okay.
00:51:19.000 You know, they, you can, people can use that.
00:51:22.000 Use that.
00:51:23.000 Oh, I'm a Christian.
00:51:24.000 I'm a Christian.
00:51:25.000 And think that they can do this to our country.
00:51:26.000 We're not going to take it.
00:51:27.000 Um, you've got to do, people got to make their own decisions here, but this guy's got to
00:51:31.000 go.
00:51:32.000 Um, wow.
00:51:33.000 Uh, give me a deal.
00:51:34.000 Talk to us about a deal.
00:51:35.000 You just made news.
00:51:37.000 Steve.
00:51:38.000 Yeah.
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